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vExpert 2017 Award Announcement

First we would like to say thank you to everyone who applied for the 2017 vExpert program. I’m pleased to announce the list 2017 vExperts. Each of these vExperts have demonstrated significant contributions to the community and a willingness to share their expertise with others. Contributing is not always blogging or Twitter as there are many public speakers, book authors, CloudCred task writing, script writers, VMUG leaders, VMTN community moderators and internal champions among this group.

I want to personally thank everyone who applied and point out that a “vExpert” is not a technical certification or even a general measure of VMware expertise. The judges selected people who were particularly engaged with their community and who had developed a substantial personal platform of influence in those communities. If you feel like you were not selected in error, that’s entirely possible.

The judges may have overlooked or misinterpreted what you wrote in your application. Email us at vexpert at vmware.com and we can discuss your situation as well as provide feedback and guidance on what you can do to receive the award. We looked at all of the 2016 activities to determine the voting results. We will open the second half 2017 applications around May / June which will only allow for two voting periods this year.

If you were selected as a vExpert 2017, we will be conducting the on-boarding throughout the next few weeks so hold tight and expect future communication from us soon. To be listed in the vExpert Directory, you must have a VMTN Community account. We will provide instructions on how to create your own directory listing as well as how to gain access to the private forum in the next communication. We will send the welcome email to the email address provided in your vExpert application. Congratulations to all the vExperts, new and returning and we’re looking forward to working with you.

Command + F away and find your name if you can’t wait for the welcome email. The 2017 vExpert welcome email will go out soon along with access to the vExpert private community.

Dear All so called “vExperts”
Please don’t flatter yourself, this is an EASY achivement anyone can get in few days. Do not post on Linkedin that you got vExpert 2017 title. That makes you all look funny. I know 3-4 people in that list got this title in few days of blogging.
Even this can’t be called as “blogging” I could better say “copy&pasting” from other people’s blogs or KB articles.
There is nothing to be excited for this title. There are a lot of people here really contributes to the community, but this easy title giving makes their contributions under valued.
Hope this will end in 2018. So please stop screaming and sayying “Thank you”, “congrats”, “well done” bla bla..

@Someone from Earth, please provide a list of the people who are copy / pasting blog articles or please stop spamming. Each accusation, I’ve asked for a list, my email is cromero at vmware.com. I’ve found a couple in two years and they were removed from the program immediately. If there are other please send them my way.

Blogging is not a pre-resiquite for vExpert. There are several other ways you can become a vExpert. I’ll list a few below so it’s clear there are other ways to get into the program.

@Someone from Earth – Really ? Nothing is easy when you work in I.T every single day technology has changed also blogging is not just writing,copy,paste its passion & dream. bloggers devote time for their work so next time don’t come and scream on others achievement.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL #VEXPERTS2017